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ADVICE  Keywords boost visibility
Frontload your headlines with keywords, such as proper names. Sure, it might mean using the passive voice from time to time, but what's a possible style faux pas in light of a big traffic upswing?

 More after the jump!
There are many schools of thought on how much text should be offered in RSS feeds, ranging from simple headlines to entire posts. Compromise by offering all the pre-jump text: Anything that can be read on the front page of your blog without clicking the "more" link should be offered in your feed.

 Cite Your Sources
Always credit your sources. There is such a thing as blog karma, so most successful bloggers subscribe to the "do unto others" school of thought.

 Post earlyand often
Post often. While it's not a great idea to post simply for the sake of posting, even the best-written blogs have trouble retaining audiences with sporadic or infrequent updates.

 Are questions useful?
Ask questions in your posts. It will prompt user discussion, and there's no better way to build a community than by fostering active comment sections.

 Tags foster browsing
Include tags on posts as often as possible. Giving users the ability to search within your site will only serve to increase traffic.

 Flaunt your opinions
They might scream "print media" to some, but columns expressing strong opinions are a great way to develop voice and authority for your blog while generating feedback.

HOW-TO Encourage bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, de.licio.us, and StumbleUpon are great ways to promote posts. Make submitting to these sites a bit easier on your readers by including modules directly on your posts.

 Include movies, audio, and more!
Adding multimedia files like MP3s and YouTube videos is a great way to break up the monotony of text-only posts. YouTube offers embed code directly on its site; MP3 files can be posted to a sharing site and linked to.

 Post directly from Word 2007
Got a blog? Post directly from Word 2007. From the Office button select New to see the full range of templates. Select New blog post. In the Blog Post tab, click Manage Accounts, then New; pick your provider and enter your credentials. Once you get the okay, try a post. You can even click Open Existing to reedit previous entries.

 Easily embed artwork
Word 2007 will upload pictures to your blog if you embed them. In a blog document, click Manage Accounts, select the account you want, and click Change | Picture Options. Whether you pick My blog provider or My own server depends on your blog host. With the latter, specify an FTP address. When you publish the blog entry, you'll be prompted for the FTP username and password.

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